cerebralhawks

As a guy nearing 50 myself, my pride wouldn't let me retire, not to mention finances. I'll probably work until I can't. Especially in this economy.

They have an interesting take. They're not against AI per se, they're against AI they can't audit. It was an interesting read.

The problem with forks such as Waterfox is that they don't get fixes as quick as the mainline browser. But, this is also somewhat of a myth. When Mozilla fixes something in Firefox, they don't push the update out to everyone right away. Some people don't get it for days. Someone who uses a privacy-centric fork like Waterfox is going to be more apt to stay on top of the updates, so even if it takes a day or two for Waterfox to integrate the fix, Waterfox users are likely updating before a lot of Firefox users. And even then, the chances of the average user being affected by whatever is being fixed is typically low, so it's better to have for browsing, but it's not like something that is constantly threatening you — in most cases.

That said, I use Firefox, and I was able to disable the AI stuff. Saw it, said nope, saw the option to disable, did so, and have been happy ever since. I don't always agree with Mozilla, but, I have been curious about forks and I have used Waterfox in the past. It's fine. It might be better, especially for "default settings" Firefox users, but for someone with a relatively low threat level and an intermediate to high skill in hardening browsers (my own assessment, subject to bias), I'm not particularly bothered by using regular Firefox. And if you're subscribed to a Privacy community (or subreddit), you probably shouldn't be, either, but then again, only you can judge your own threat level. There are certainly situations where something like Waterfox would be preferred.

Correct. And people with bad reading comprehension vote. Worse, they're exploited by people who are aware of their weaknesses.

Someone posted a similar thing a couple days ago, except it was a guy who posted. Said he was 15. Said they asked for the exact same thing.

Sounds like a scam they're running on social media.

Hack, or its modern incarnation, NetHack. (No relation to the .hack comment. That's a game based on an anime. Hack is a Roguelike from the 1980s, came out shortly after Rogue itself, follows a very similar format, and is arguably if not definitively the oldest true Roguelike currently developed. I mean, you can get NetHack on iOS and Android, not to mention all modern computers, and it still looks like it's running on UNIX in the 1970s. ASCII art and all. Though there are "tile sets" that give it graphics, the original does not have any [graphics] to speak of (aside from the icon, I suppose). You are the @ symbol (well, that's the symbol for humans), floors are periods/full-stops, walls are dashes and pipes and plus symbols for corners, dirt paths are pound/hashtag, and most monsters are letters (and uppercase is not the same as lowercase; d is dog and D is dragon, IIRC).

It's a procedurally generated game. You start on floor 1 of a dungeon, and you have to find stairs down (>) and advance to the 35th or 37th (I forget) floor, at which point the Amulet of Yendor has a chance to spawn. The game is won when you exit the dungeon via the first floor. The bad ending is doing it without the Amulet (including right at the start!). You live a long life in obscurity. The good ending is exiting with the Amulet, in which case you live a long life, rich and famous. If you die, you get a tombstone showing what you accomplished. And you can potentially leave a ghost behind which you can fight in later runs (and get all those items if you defeat it).

The game is based on D&D, so you can level up. It's also based on Tolkien lore, and there are a ton of neat things you can do (for example, engraving the name Elbereth, IIRC, into a floor space means certain enemies treat that space like a wall. Walking over it gives them a chance of being able to pass over it. It's also turn based, you pause the game by not doing anything. Time only advances when you move. Hunger is also a thing, so you have to find food, or eat what you kill (some enemies are poisonous, and some give you perks, like eating a Floating Eye sounds disgusting, but you can see life forms through walls from pretty far away.

Did I mention the game is 100% free? And actively developed?

https://www.nethack.org/common/index.html ← Latest version released February 2023. So not actively actively develped, but updated more recently than, well, most games in this thread! Considering this is a game from the 1980s, that's pretty impressive! They're still fixing bugs and adding features.

Is that the PS2 game they split into four parts and put an OVA DVD in each one, and charged $50 for each? If so, I only played the first one, and it was not hard. But, I only played a quarter of the full game.

For anyone who hasn't heard of .hack, it was an anime series that famously inspired Sword Art Online (first a book series, then an anime, and later it had games of its own). .hack was an original animation, meaning it wasn't based on a manga or light novel, like most anime. It itself was an amalgamation of existing MMORPG tropes, based around a loner who couldn't log out of the system. But SAO copied .hack wholesale, though SAO fans argue that the author of the SAO books, Reki Kawahara, merely started writing the SAO books while .hack was airing and didn't actually watch it, despite being a Japanese citizen and professing to love both anime and RPGs. But of course he never watched a show that merged him, and all the exact similarities between his books and that anime are entirely coincidental. In fact, the writers of .hack may have read his stories and used them to steer the direction of their show! /s (if the sarcasm wasn't obvious).

I mean, don't get me wrong. SAO is way better than .hack. The books, the anime, and the movies. (The games are trash, though. I got one on sale for like ten bucks and feel like I got ripped off.) There are over 2 dozen books in the main series, to say nothing of the spinoffs, and the first 17-18 of those books have been made into audiobooks, featuring the lead voice actors from the anime. Someone optioned the series to make a Hollywood movie of it, but nothing's ever been announced and that option may have expired by now.

What would happen if you tried to play the movie (which I assume loads the subs and parses the commands — maybe) on a Mac or a PC running Linux? The article says PowerShell and it mentions Windows dependencies but I'm not sure it requires a Windows system.

I feel like my Macs would ask permission before running the code (Macs ask permission a lot, or straight up say something isn't going to run, you have to go into Settings, Security to make it run). I feel like Linux boxes wouldn't be as susceptible as Windows, either.

I'm not gonna try it because I'm not as sure about restoring a Mac system as I am with Windows. Relatively new to this system.

Oh yeah, I do like the Star Wars prequels. Phantom Menace is a bit infantile, but Attack of the Clones sits firmly between Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, and Revenge of the Sith sits between Jedi and SW, in terms of quality. TPM is right there with Jedi, and was a blast both times I saw it in theaters. Duel of the Fates was one of the best fights of the franchise, and the pod race is unmatched in terms of chase/race scenes (only really going up against the speeder chase in Jedi, the car chase in Clones, and maybe one other? And seeing Palpatine as a not-villain but knowing the truth about him? All good all around.

Most people in my life think anime is trash. They don't tell me to "hate" any movies, but anime movies don't get a lot of love. The best movie I've seen is an anime movie. It's called 君の名は。 ("your name."), and yes, the full-stop is part of the title (so it's a bit annoying to type outside of quotes or parenthesis, which is part of why I use the native title first. I don't think anybody seriously thinks 君の名は。 is a "bad" movie or "hates" it, but it gets dismissed for being "anime." (J.J. Abrams bought the option to adapt it, and planned a live-action film, before COVID. That will bring more attention to it. Not sure if it's still happening, though. I think they have a screenplay. I already know what it's about, who the characters will be, where it's set, and a lot of that, but a lot of details are still missing, and I don't think shooting has begun, or even casting.)

Everyone on the Internet hates Battlefield Earth. I tried to watch it, but I couldn't. Sorry, I'm with the Internet on this one.

A lot of the Internet hates the Twilight movies. I quite liked the first one. The next three had cool parts, but weren't as good as the first.

OP, maybe if you told us some movies YOU were told to hate (or, the way I read it, "told you would hate"), people who liked those movies could respond. I see some people are taking offense at your title and not really answering. I just think it's badly worded (maybe) so I answered as best I could. Always assume good faith until proven otherwise, I say!

You don’t have freedom of speech on any site. Freedom of speech is freedom from the government restricting your speech, not private organizations.

That said, yes. I got banned from Reddit for merely suggesting that people who harm children should face stiffer penalties. I’ve said that many times here and even pissed off some pedophiles here, but never got banned or suspended for it. I think Lemmy takes a bit more of a hands off approach.

Consider: what I say about Reddit isn’t going to affect Reddit at all. But someone like me says bad things about Lemmy, it might have more of an effect. Smaller sites pick their battles more carefully. Bigger sites don’t care.

But even more than that, Lemmy is federated. That means your instance — lemmy.org — can ban you, and you can just join another, like db0 (what I’m on) or hexbear. We’re on different instances but we’re still able to interact.

Without giving any examples, I can only guess.

From what I've seen, corn is being used as a placeholder for porn because they rhyme.

If you mean something else... maybe give us more to go on. Without anything to go on... that's all I got. I haven't heard any others. Except, of course, puns like you see in the comments, but I think that's just based on you saying corn and them not having anything to go on, so they make puns. I'm not very good at them, and I feel like the best one (amaizing, for maize) has already been taken, so I'm not going to repeat or rework it.

Nope. What's going to happen if you have a falling-out while you're there? You're at the mercy of this other person.

That said, you're 22 and this sounds like it could be an awesome experience.